The "I Voted" stickers were popularized after a 1985 Phoenix vote for a new tax to build freeways. A Realtor group designed them to give out to morning voters, so people who hadn't voted yet would get inspired. Afternoon voting was known to drop off. People wanted the freeways and the tax passed 2-1

Reading the tea leaves department: At the Metro board Finance Committee, there was a hint that the Metro D Line might be opening "late January or early February" 2026. Listen/watch the meeting video - minute 42:15 metro.granicus.com/player/clip/...

Lots of transit news from BART director Victor Flores - including that the BART board has voted to use standard gauge for the 2nd set of transbay tubes. This will open up the option for Caltrain, High Speed Rail, and Amtrak to cross between downtown San Francisco and the East Bay in the future.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Does Trump know how to ride a bike?

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Taxis are credence goods, as most riders trust they aren't getting ripped off and the service is safe. Regulations help here. Tesla is undermining the idea that AVs are safe with their service, and that will hurt the industry overall, as most people will associated AVs with crashes if this keeps up

come pick me up, im over here on 60th in ridgewood

Happy Caltrain Electrification Day! Here's to one year of 25% faster local trips and 15 minute peak, 30 min weekend service! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

From @ctillier.bsky.social’s blog: CPUC has ruled that level boarding platforms are permitted on mainline railways – WITHOUT expensive and time-consuming workarounds like gauntlet tracks, folding platform edges, or a special waiver. This is a BFD!

The Dodgers now lead the Giants head-to-head all-time in the regular season, 1,288 wins to 1,287 wins (with 19 ties, h/t @EliasSports) This is the first time the Dodgers lead the Giants all-time head-to-head since after a game on August 8, 1896, when they led 49-48 BASE BALL

On a packed Big Blue Bus 7 on a Saturday evening. College students, service workers, grandmas. People going to bars to celebrate civic leaders (me). Everyone’s doing something. Such a massively useful transit line.

Acela is nice, but once California HSR, Brightline West and Canada's Alto are done, the NEC will look slow and obsolete. ...and everyone will be wondering why North America's most densely populated region couldn't get its act together in the 2000s and 2010 to make such an obvious investment.

With tonight’s win, the Dodgers have finally tied the Giants in the all-time head-to-head standings with 1,287 wins each. The last time they were even was in 1896.

Greetings from #Pomona! The Militant's first Metro (A) Line ride to the Queen of the Citrus Belt took 1 hour 4 mins from Union Station and the new 9-mile extension took 15 mins from the APU/Citrus station.

Los Angeles' A Line light rail has been extended today further to the east, with the extension running from Azusa to Pomona, with stops in Glendora, San Dimas, & La Verne. The A line, from Long Beach to Pomona, is 57.6 miles long, the longest light rail line in the world, with a 2h11 trip time.

California leads the way again. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a suite of climate bills into law today, making major steps toward a cleaner, more reliable, and more affordable energy future.

Democrats don’t have much incentive to approve a budget unless it involves substantial reversal of Medicaid cuts and ungodly ICE spending, reinstatement of civil servants, and iron clad legal commitments on research grants continuing to flow to universities. Time to fight and call the bluff.

How I went from an e-bike hater to a believer

This would radically reshape US transportation investment, requiring states & metros to reduce greenhouse gas emissions & fix it first before expanding roadways. It would be the reverse of what the Trump admin is doing, which is banning discussion of climate & actively promoting expanded roads.

Shoutout to the car owner who got the MATHRCK license plate

Electrolink is exempt from CEQA, it's in the State Rail Plan*, and we have Caltrain and CAHSR to learn from. It's time for Metrolink to commit. What are you waiting for, Metrolink? *except for the south OC/north SD portion, thanks Coastal Commission

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

Supervisor Horvath seeks increased ad revenue, supports congestion pricing - questions if would work for LAX. Metro staff respond that LAX would lead looking at that.

Admiring the work of @cahsra.bsky.social and the CA Building Trades. Someday soon I’ll be down there instead of up here.

House Democratic Leadership Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

It was great talking transit with @carterrubin.com on the YOLO Transit bus to Sacramento! #TransitMonth2025

you know what sucks, paying $100 to fill up your car. I can charge my EV at home for like 11 bucks, and it'll be cheaper than that once I get my solar going

Opposing view: Fast-tracking new oil drilling permits will do nothing to affect pump prices. cal.news/46AxZHP 📝 Deborah Sivas

The new Florence bus lanes are REALLY BRIGHT RED! More please! la.streetsblog.org/2025/09/16/e...

Thanks to all the Bruin workers for standing up.

UCLA must not give into these demands. Over 600,000 living alumni will stand behind it.

Colorado will start an update to its 10 year transportation plan, which requires under statute a plan to achieve GHG emissions reductions. For Californians, imagine if SB 375 applied to Caltrans. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f468...

California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online #Climate

Today is the day!

California housing policy looks to be making some progress. It had better

In 1991 I was sleeping in my car. I charmed a landlord and signed a lease for a $400 a month studio in the Mission. I want San Francisco to again welcome misfits. Build housing.

Don’t look, but some actual pressure from voters to change their way this season and suddenly the California legislature is passing some good bills. A lot of them come with broken bones and bruises or don’t address underlying problems, but it’s still something while D.C. is under political siege.

SB 79 — our bill allowing more housing near public transportation — just received final approval by the Senate & IS ON ITS WAY TO THE GOVERNOR! This bill is a huge step for housing, transit & climate action. Thank you colleagues!

SB 79 passed!

It was a nail biter, but SB79 passes the CA senate. With no votes to spare—21 yes, 8 no.

Absolutely momentous day for California. We're turning the corner on housing at the very moment America needs us to.

SB 79 HAS PASSED!

As a point of reference, if you’re growing strawberries in California, you’re making five to ten times more money per acre than you can generating solar power. But if you’re growing rice, that might be ten times less. But without water, you’re not growing at all.

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly floor! The bill now goes to the Senate for concurrence, then the Governor’s desk. cayimby.org/legislation/...

SB 79 is up in the Assembly!

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Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.